Connecticut western news., 1887-08-31
CURRENT EVENTS ABROAD.

The Spanish Government has acquired territory on the Red Sea lttoral near Assab Bay.
 The Government of New South Wales having offered 3O0 900 acres of land to any missionary society that will undertake to civil ize the natives, the Pope has directed that immediate attention be paid to the oher in order to forestall Protestant societies.
 King Kalakaua is an inveterate but unsuc- cessful poker player. Adventurers from San Francisco find him an easy and profitable vic tim.
 -Winkelmayer, the giant, ,whowas said to be the largest man in the world, has died in Aus tria.
 Rudolph Siemering's equestrian statue of George Washington will be shipped at once from Frankfort to Bremen, whence 1t will be re-shipped to the United States.
 The Cologne Gazette says that large quan- titles of pig iron are being exported from Swe- den to Pennsylvania for railway bridges.
 The German Government have expelled two Russian families who have resided in the environs of the city.
 Tho Universe thinks that the French Cath olic influence should be exerted at the Vatican to have Mary Queen of Scots enrolled among the saints. It is reported that the Vatican is considering the proposition.
 The Ghilzai rebellion has collapsed The rebels are seeking refuge in all directions.
 
 the requests of the foreign councils for an un- official interview.
 During regatta on the Thames below London Bridge yesterday about thirty-tive spectators clambered upon hay laden barge. Tho ropes holding the tarpaulin cover gave way, and all except one of the spectators were thrown into the river and seventeen wero drowned. The water was only three feet deep but there were eight feet of mud under heath.
 The marriage of the Emperor of China has been postponed for two years, owing to the illness of the Emperor
 The Gozdte publishes decree cancelling the appointment of Senior Salamanca as Cap ta n-General of Cuba.
 It is reported that the negotiations between the Sultan and Portugal to establish the boun- dary line between Zanzibar and the Portuguese province of Mozambique have collapsed. It is also said that England and Germany have sug gested to the King of the Netherlands that he should act as arbitrator between Zanzibar and Portugal, but the advice has not been ac- cepted.
 Tho rife factories at Spandau and Dant- zic, Germany, are rapidly discharging work men, having almost completed the orders fol repeating rifles for the army.
 John Parnell brother of the Irish leader, has arrived safely in Liverpool. He was sup posed to have been a passenger on the City of Montreal.
 The Prussian Minister of Agriculture an ticipates the following yields: Wheat, 1O2 per cent; rye, 100 per cent; barley, 3i per cent: 1; oats, S5 per cent. peas, 91 per cent; rapeseed, 80 per cent, as against the following yields last year. Wheat, 95 per cent; rye, o7 per cent; barley, 37 per cent. oats, 101 per cent. j peas, 94 per cent; rapeseed, 9S per cent. The scaffolding on the new City Hospital, Berlin, collapsed, killing six workmen and badly injuring several others, including the | architect.
 Severe earthquake shocks occurred in Japan on July %, doing considerable damage. | A new Peruvian Ministry has been formed, as follows: Mariana Alvarez, President of the Cabinet and Minister of Finance; Car os Elias, Minister of Foreign Relations; Sencr Borgopo, Minister of War; Senor Torrico, Minister of the Interior, and Senor Seegarcia, Minister of Justice.
 Heavy rains have fallen in Austria. Several | towns are inundated, and many rivers are | swollen.
 The London Daily Telegraph commends | the American peace memorial and says: | ''There should be no question burning enough to justify war between the two great English 1 speaking nations who are of common blood and have a common language and literature. If the memorial proves successful 1t might | lead to European international arbitration" l A serious riot occurred between Belgian and English fishermen at Ostend. Troops l charged upon the rioters. wounding many of | them with bayonets. The London Times, referring to tho Mani 1 toban Railway and Canadian tariff questions, says: sThe position altogether seems to be one in which the needless haste of 8 few per sons must precipitate the solution of avery ex- tensive question. in which the whole future of tho Dominion is bound up." M M Stoiloff and Grckoff have refused to join the Bulgarian Ministry. which will ap- parently be composed of nonentities, as the leading men of the country are holding aloof. It is said in Berlin that Germany has agreed to support Russia in Bulgarian affairs on condition of Russian neutrality in event of a war between Germany aud France, while 8 Cologne newspaper says that public opinion in Russia is highly suspicious of Germany, and that t 0 strained relations between the two countries is due to the popular antipathy. Russian stocks made further advance on the | Berlin Bourse.
 The Cologne Gazette says that negotia- tions will shortly be opened between Germany and Franco regarding expulsions. France only agrees to negotiate on tho reopening of tEe Chambers, reserving meanwhile the right to retaliate for expulsions from Alsaco-Lor- | raine.